I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn’t see or hear or touch.
MARILYN MONROEAll little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren’t.
More Marilyn Monroe Quotes
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If there is only one thing in my life that I am proud of, it’s that I’ve never been a kept woman.
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Just because you fail once doesn’t mean you’re gonna fail at everything.
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I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
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I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.
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Open your eyes and look within. Are you satisfied with the life you are living?
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People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn’t see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.
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Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.
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Most people in the world are Christ lovers. And then there are Christ haters. But all of them are fixated on Christ, and he perpetuates for ever.
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The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.
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Love and work are the only two real things in our lives. They belong together, otherwise it is off. Work is in itself a form of love.
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All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.
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If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I’ve got to follow it through, what am I supposed to do, look intelligent?
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Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
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You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.
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I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that’s not easy.
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